Big Beat UK
2008
Here's Where I Belong - The Best Of The Dunhill Years 1965-1967
About This Album
Lou Adler, the legendary producer and mogul who founded Dunhill Records, once told a reporter, "I gave Phil Sloan a pair of boots and a hat and a copy of the Dylan album (Bringing It All Back Home), and a week later he came back with ten songs, including 'Eve of Destruction.'" It's all but impossible to imagine P.F. Sloan's music without Bob Dylan's guiding influence, and in many respects he was the West Coast music biz's response to the wordy insouciance of Dylan's pre-motorcycle accident songs, but though the similarities are unavoidable, the comparisons also sell short Sloan's genuine talent as a songwriter. Sloan enjoyed a successful career as a tunesmith years before he wrote "Eve of Destruction," and if the success of Barry McGuire's recording of that song changed the direction of Sloan's career, there's a freshness and emotional honesty to his writing that shines through no matter how much he leans on Dylan's template, and at a time when the Bard of Hibbing's lyrics became increasingly abstract and elliptical, the directness of Sloan's broadsides about love and the state of the world felt potent and refreshing.
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